Bio
Anna Kovina is a sculptor and interdisciplinary artist based in Richmond, Virginia, who works across sculpture, photography, and immersive installation. Born in Moscow and raised in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, she developed early passions for visual arts and rhythmic gymnastics. She immigrated to the United States in 1995 at the age of 17, where she subsequently earned degrees in finance and law, leading her to practice law in Palo Alto, California.
In 2021, Anna relocated to Richmond, Virginia, where she began formally studying sculpture at VCUArts. She discovered glass-forming and other studio practices that aligned with her interest in material exploration and high-temperature processes. She earned her BFA in Sculpture + Extended Media and continues developing interdisciplinary work, creating sculptures from fiber, metal, and glass, dispersing them into light beams, and opening them to interpretation through improvisational movement.
Anna has received professional recognition, including Dean's Best in Show at VCU's 2024 Juried Undergraduate Exhibition and the Vikki Katel Memorial Scholarship. Her research has been supported through VCU grants examining feminist art practices and the social psychology of childbirth. She has been awarded a fellowship at Virginia Center for the Creative Arts at Mount St. Angelo in Amherst, Virginia, and selected as an artist in residence by KALA Art Institute in Berkeley, California in 2025.
Photo: David Hunter Hale
STUDIO PRACTICE
Making people was excellent training for making art.
Twenty years of motherhood trained me to recognize unfixed potential and to create conditions where growth could happen without knowing exactly what it would become. When I come to the studio, I bring that way of living with me.
Sculpture is the center of my practice. I begin with wool because it is soft, responsive, and willing to change. Through casting, those forms become bronze or lead crystal while carrying traces of their previous lives. I photograph the sculptures and project them into architectural space, where they continue to evolve through light, movement, and the presence of other bodies.
I think of these transformative stages as Bodies of Work. Rather than treating sculpture, photography, and installation as separate disciplines, I understand them as extended ways of presence.
CONTACT
I'd love to connect.
There is a person behind the sculptures - me!
I answer my own emails, write @Rare and Late from my studio, and share studio updates as they come.
Photo: David Hunter Hale
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